Saw this comment and couldn’t resist the urge to figure out just how much 60 million USD actually is in this context.
Relative to the revenue of the US gov:t 2024 (~5tln USD) and the US annual minimum wage (~15k usd) roughly two dimes so… yeah basically nothing.
Next question, how much can the US gov:t achieve with basically nothing?
Meal cost estimates at 0.5$ per, 3 meals per day = 1.5$ or 40mln days worth of food. Gaza population this year ~824k up from ~800k last year (worldpopulationreview) which puts us at ~48 days of food for the entire Gazan population.
So, what’s the lesson learned here?
Even Trump is willing to give two dimes of somebody elses money to a starving person… or maybe that the gov:t can achieve a fair bit with almost nothing. You decide :)
Saw this comment and couldn’t resist the urge to figure out just how much 60 million USD actually is in this context.
Relative to the revenue of the US gov:t 2024 (~5tln USD) and the US annual minimum wage (~15k usd) roughly two dimes so… yeah basically nothing.
Next question, how much can the US gov:t achieve with basically nothing?
Meal cost estimates at 0.5$ per, 3 meals per day = 1.5$ or 40mln days worth of food. Gaza population this year ~824k up from ~800k last year (worldpopulationreview) which puts us at ~48 days of food for the entire Gazan population.
So, what’s the lesson learned here?
Even Trump is willing to give two dimes of somebody elses money to a starving person… or maybe that the gov:t can achieve a fair bit with almost nothing. You decide :)